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Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours
Heraldry's unfamiliar terminology discourages people from learning
more about this fascinating subject but heraldic language is
essential for the precise description of a coat of arms. This book
provides a gentle introduction explaining terms and providing basic
principles.
First full edition of a crucial source for knowledge of the period.
The eyre roll is a major source of information about medieval life,
ranging from local courts and land tenure through town customs and
the status of women to general neighbourliness. This is especially
important for Northumberland, where constant border raiding was
detrimental to the accumulation of local records. The survival of
the Northumberland Eyre Roll for 1293, recording over eleven
hundred law suits, provides a rare glimpse of the county
(togetherwith information on Lancashire, Westmorland and
Cumberland) on the eve of the outbreak of the Anglo-Scottish wars;
as only brief extracts from the roll have been published
previously, this full edition will be warmly welcomed. Thetext is
accompanied by notes and a subject index providing a full guide to
topics of special interest. CONSTANCE FRASER is a retired lecturer.
Genealogist Keith Gregson takes the reader on a whistle-stop tour
of quirky family stories and strange ancestors rooted out by
amateur and professional family historians. Each lively entry tells
the story behind each discovery and then offers a brief insight
into how the researcher found and then followed up their leads,
revealing a range of chance encounters and the detective qualities
required of a family historian. For example, one researcher
discovered that his great-great-grandfather, as a child, was
carried across the main street of West Hartlepool on the back of
the famous tightrope walker Blondin. The Victorian newspaper report
said that the rope had been tied between two chimney pots. Research
into the author's own family revealed that one of his
nineteenth-century ancestors lost his leg in a Midlands coal-mining
accident, and that the amputated leg was buried in the local
cemetery - to be joined by the rest of him on his final demise. A
Viking in the Family is full of similar unexpected discoveries in
the branches of family trees.
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY
FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF
THE YEAR 2019 'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening
Standard 'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing,
tragic, but also uplifting' The Times
__________________________________________________ Little Lien
wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given
away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a
foster family in the provinces during the Nazi occupation, she
survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much
later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the
grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why.
His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing
exploration of two lives and two families. It is a story about love
and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful
experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined.
___________________________________________________ 'Luminous,
elegant, haunting - I read it straight through' Philippe Sands,
author of East West Street 'Deeply moving. Writes with an almost
Sebaldian simplicity and understatement' Guardian 'Sensational and
gripping . . . shedding light on some of the most urgent issues of
our time' Judges of the Costa Book of the Year 2018
This is a step-by-step guide to using the wealth of online records
to trace your family tree from your own computer, without the need
to travel to national and regional record offices. Whether you are
a novice or an experienced genealogist, and whether you plan to
devote just a few hours of your time or embark on a life-time
hobby, this book will guide you through the mass of records
available - birth, marriage and death, the census, and much, much
more - so that you can trace your line back hundreds of years. You
will also learn how to upload your results to the internet, both to
preserve your family's heritage and to connect with relatives, so
that you can exchange photos and reminiscences. Contents: Welcome!;
1. What the internet offers the genealogist; 2. How to start; 3.
Finding records of birth, marriage and death; 4. Using census
records; 5. Other major sources; 6. Military; 7. Wills and where to
find them online; 8. Migration; 9. Newspapers; 10. Occupations; 11.
The poor and workhouse records; 12. Noble ancestors; 13.
Directories; 14. School and university records; 15. Working with
the wider context; 16. Family medical history; 17. DNA; 18. Working
with names; 19. Recording your family tree; 20. Online recording
options; 21. Problems of online trees; 22. Finding living
relatives; 23. Genealogical miscellany; 24. Accent and dialect; 25.
Final; Key websites; Index
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